Help Index :: Races :: Trolls Average Statistics for Trolls Height: males about 6'4" - 7'4" females: about 6'6" - 7'6" Hair: Swamp trolls tend to have black hair, not always on their head. What hair grows on them is either greasy or coarse. Ice trolls of the north have white hair, with at least more on their head than elsewhere. Eyes: All trolls have beady little black or red eyes with very small pupils. Essentially there is no iris, just the red or black around the pupil. Affiliation: trolls are a dark race. Appearance: Trolls have green skin in a variety of hues (though none are what would be called vibrant, verdant, bright, neon, or electric green). They are often warty or have cancerous appearing growths, though these do not seem to affect their health negatively in any way, rather it appears to be an excess product of their ability to regenerate. Trolls almost never have any scars, as they heal so incredibly well. For a race that is typically foul, corrupt and evil they have incongruous gift of incredible regeneration but it comes at the cost of a never-ending hunger. Ice trolls tend to have duller, paler skin that is typically dry. Their hair is coarse and bushy. Swamp trolls tend to have darker shades of skin and greasy, sparse hair. Optional Advice on Role Playing a Troll Trolls are known to be big, slow lumbering behemoths whose sole goal in life is to feed their never-ending appetite. Fortunately for them, just about anything short of stone is considered edible and their metabolisms are quite happy to oblige in that regard. While an uprooted shrub or forgotten bit of clothing makes an adequate snack, the best food is something you just killed yourself. While some trolls have finally managed to figure out that skinning an animal might provide fur you can sell for even better tasting meat, most still prefer to just eat the corpse outright. After all, not much tastes better than a fresh kill whose blood is still warm. The fact that you just killed it yourself, somewhat sating an almost equal appetite for destruction is just spice for the flavoring. Two varieties of troll have developed in the realm, though both races share a few common characteristics. Hunger, the ability to heal, and a complete loathing for sunlight. All trolls prefer the dark of a nice cave to the painful light of day. They also all share a deep-rooted fear of fire as it has the ability to harm them and is about the only thing likely to scar a troll. Swamp trolls are the more common variety when seen at all, tending towards solitary life. They are fairly anti-social, even among their own kind and like to live under the exposed roots of large swamp trees or under bridges. They are quick to anger, quick to kill things, and insufferably monotonous. They are poor conversationalists with communication skills often extending at best to grunts and simple gestures. Ice trolls, also called northern trolls, are found primarily in the upper Cairn mountains and, infrequently, in the Dragonspire mountains. Unlike their swampland cousins, they share a common social structure and tend to live in small familial groups in the mountain caves. Though they still share a fairly low level of communication, they are at least known to have a limited vocabulary making them seem leaps and bounds ahead of their swampland cousins. Ice trolls tend to be more intellectually advanced, which still isn't saying much, heartier in survival, but smaller, weaker and less brutal in comparison to their cousins. Racial Relations: Trolls are typically a solitary breed, though they rarely fight with other trolls when they do meet. Vyans are considered untrustworthy schemers, though useful allies in dire circumstances. Goblins are only useful as lackeys and servants. Orcs make useful allies and fair-to-middling hunting partners particularly when the quarry is elves. Short of other trolls, ogres make the best companions as they share the trolls' lack of love for conversation and their love of carnage. Elves, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings are despised as legions of light and order as much as their tendency to get in the way of a good meal. Fortunately they, themselves make excellent meals. Provided they didn't bring fire, one meal is as good as another. The best thing about ents is provoking them. After all, they look so much like trolls that they must be related. Trolls just can't figure out what's wrong with them that they serve light and goodness. As they are typically slow to anger, trolls get great mirth out of trying to convert ents. A lack of vocabulary simply means this usually take the form of offering ents ample bloody meals, which they invariable refuse. The look of tormented sadness in their eyes as they consider the harm you caused to living beings in obtaining the meat is about as much fun to see as it is getting the meat in the first place. The best thing about humans is the fact that they keep building bridge to hide under and most of them are too weak to harm a troll. The end result is that they build trolls fabulous homes then pay them to walk over them and if they refuse to pay they try to cross anyway making a never-ending supply of meals that come to your very own front door. The occasional human turns to the dark side and makes for an interesting hunting companion as they can be quite inventive in their destructiveness.